232 
_ On the other side, we hand you copy of letter received from thé 
Right teeth W. L. Jackson. You will see that he confirms what. 
i : 
trouble to experiment with an unknown ar ticle, and of which the supply 
would be very uncertain. We cannot even sell. the mangrove bark. to 
i i rred. 
We have forwarded a sample to you by Carter, Paterson, and Co., 
and very much regret that we cannot give you a more favourable 
report. 
: are, &c. 
D. Morris, Esq., F.L.S., (Signed) ' DALTON AND Youne. 
Royal Gardens, Kew. + 
Extract from letter received from the Right Hon. W. L. JACKSON. 
“I have recen dms mangrove bark Seen and I regret that I 
am not able to report very favourably upon ambier at present is 
much cheaper as a "tuner, and I do not t think MM could be found 
.. who would pay a Ee ae price for this 
“I am afraid will have to tell th enslgn ons rs that it has come 
upon the market af a most ifevouradilo time, and there is no chance 
its competing with gambier at present prices. 

CCLXIX.—FO00D GRAINS OF INDIA—(continued). 
Brack Burmese Rice. 
In continuation of previous articles contributed by Professor A. H. 
Church, F.R.S., on the Food Grains of € the following interest- 
ing analysis has been made of a black Burmese rice forwarded to Kew, 
through Dr. iden by Dr. King, F.R.S., C.I E. of-the Royal Botanical 
Gardens, Calcu 
A rather fall st of this rice, obtained originally from Mr. W. S. 
E. Landale, has lately appeared in "the proceedings of the Agri-Horti- 
cultural enar of India, 1892, p. cexlvi.:—*'A sample each of black 
* and white Béni rice was exhibited at the meeting, presented by Mr. 
* W. S. E. Landale, who furnished the following information :—* The 
* * black Burmese Jooma Choul is grown by Mughs in Chittagong and 
** * the Hill Tracts, in the Jhooms, or newly cleared jungle land. This 
* ‘paddy is sown in April and eut in October, and is much more 
** * glutinous and nutritious than ordinary rice, or than the black Béni 
* * of the Bengalies, also grown in Chittagon 
* Mr. Landale described this rice as getting quite glutinous when 
cooked, and mentioned that for this nd a is frequently steamed 
instead of bein ing boiled in the ordinary ma Besides being used as 
a food in the regular way, it is made ihto s a eh of pudding, flavoured 
with seraped cocoanut. "The rice becomes quite purple when cooked. 
Of the white rice, Mr. Landale said, this is also a Béni rice, this name 
being used for the glutinous kinds; It has the same characterist tics as 
rice, and is grown by the same people and in the same 
Tanner, both ae but little water and thus being vation of Hill 


wc Kew Tullio, 1887, December, P. 7 1888, p. 266; and 1889, p. 283. 
